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A volume originally used to record membership of the Pandy Medical Aid Society, 1887-1888. The list of members is largely in the autograph of John Davies, and is followed by an address (48 pp.), also in his hand, on 'Billy Bray' [William Bray, Cornish miner and preacher].

A volume containing mounted cuttings of a paper by John Davies on 'Monmouthshire Worthies', read before the Newport Cymmrodorion Society. Inset are a few extracts from Trevecca letters, 1729-1744, and transcripts in the hand of J. A. Bradney of some of the Gunter papers described in NLW MS 11420E. The volume was originally (1902) used as a mathematics exericse book.

A collection of press cuttings largely of personal, Calvinistic Methodist, and Monmouthshire interest. Also included in the group are a printed circular announcing a proposed testimonial to John Davies [1901], and a printed address to William Griffiths, J. P., Colwinstone, Newport, by the Monmouthshire [Calvinistic Methodist] Monthly Meeting, [c. 1903].

A paper on 'The Romance of Foreign Missions', read [by Gladys Davies, Pandy] to the Congregational Church, Abergavenny, 1914.

Sermons largely by, and in the hand of, John Davies. Such of the sermons as are dated belong to the period 1859-1915 and were delivered at Pandy and Forest Coalpit, Pen-y-clawdd, Tredegar, Abercarn, Llanover, Pontnewynydd, Brecon, Dowlais, Pentre (Rhondda), etc. Dispersed among the sermons are several addresses and speeches by, or in the hand of, John Davies, including on 'Y Gronfa Gynhaliaethol' [Calvinistic Methodist Sustentation Fund]; 'Dewi Sant'; and at Gorwydd in Llangamarch on the occasion of the tercentenary of the death of John Penry, 29 May, 1893 (NLW MS 11356A); on the history of Llanfapley Congregational Church, delivered on 26 June, 1884, and at the centenary of the foundation, 31 August, 1910; and on the history of Castle Street Congregational Church, Abergavenny (NLW MS 11365A); a petition to [the Monmouthshire County Council], undated, to take over a length of road between Pontrilas and Pandy [railway] stations (NLW MS 11369A)); on laying the foundation stone of a new [Calvinistic Methodist] chapel at Llanbedr [Brecknockshire], 11 April, 1884; and on Thomas Charles of Bala (NLW MS 11375A); and on Howel[l] Harris [of Trevecka] (NLW MS 11376A). NLW MS 11360A contains reminiscences (6 pp.) by W[illiam] Samlet Williams of his pastorate (1876-1880) of Felindre, Llys-wen, and Felin-newydd Calvinistic Methodist churches in Brecknockshire.

Papers, [1842x1936], of or from the library of John Davies, pastor of Pandy and Forest Coalpit Calvinistic Methodist churches, both in Monmouthshire. The collection largely comprises material of Monmouthshire and Calvinistic Methodist interest and includes autograph sermons, diaries, correspondence and miscellaneous notebooks of John Davies.

Y Dyddiadur Methodistaidd, 1866, 1898-1899, 1901, 1904, The Diary of the Calvinistic Methodists, 1875-1876, 1905, 1907-1908, 1910, 1912, 1914-1915, A Diary of Sundays for 20 Years, 1886-1906, Pettitt's Handy Diary, 1916, and Year Book of the Council of the County of Monmouth, 1895 (lettered 'Alderman John Davies'), 1900-1901 (lettered 'Alderman Davies'), with manuscript entries by John Davies, Pandy.

Notebooks containing drafts of 'Nodion Cymdeithasfaol' or reports and minutes of meetings and committees of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1896-1899; together with notes on some aspects of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, e.g. on Howell Harris.